Domestic Aid

These donations of food and home products came from the Lutheran Women in Missions League (LWML) St. Louis West zone rally, held at Webster Gardens Lutheran Church, and from the church’s Seniors Connect group. Every week, the Orphan Grain Train Mis...

It has been a busy two weeks in many of the parishes of New Orleans as community groups gathered to put food boxes together and then distributed the boxes to people in need. Full distributions of boxes containing rice, beans, canned tuna, onions, cuc...

In September, Orphan Grain Train Highland Lakes in Buchanan Dam, Texas delivered blankets, and men’s, women’s and children’s coats to four locations in the area: Pittsburg Baptist Church in Llano, First Baptist Church in Kingsland, ...

Orphan Grain Train Wisconsin delivered several loads of potatoes to Texas, Kentucky, South Dakota and Louisiana. In the fall, the branch shared 20,000 to 40,000 pounds of potatoes with each recipient-either the full load or half of the load. Photos a...

The Orphan Grain Train fencing crew completed their initial fencing project in Hyannis, Nebraska this first week of October. Dave Meyer, Walt Rosenbaum, Mike Jundt, Dale Martin and DeWayne Erickson joined this 8th trip. On October 12th, the crew will...

Orphan Grain Train Central Nebraska filled a dry van trailer with items to be shared with Ysleta Lutheran Mission Human Care and the people in the El Paso, Texas area. This was a load that required a plan for secure packing: one piano, 29 church pews...

Orphan Grain Train Announces Response Assistance Shipment Volunteers for the Orphan Grain Train’s (OGT) New England Branch, located at 33 South Main St. in Terryville, Ct. loaded a 53-foot container of needed items on Sept. 21 to help with poverty ...

Six and a half miles of new fencing and, in the midst of trip seven, Orphan Grain Train fencing volunteers – Dave Meyer, Walt Rosenbaum, Mike Jundt and DeWayne Erickson – are spending the week pulling out the bad and putting in the new in...

Orphan Grain Train’s Logistics Director, Brent Kummer, delivered another load of 2,400 hedge posts to Hyannis, Nebraska today, Sept. 3rd. Ranchers were there ready to offload the posts onto their trailers. The posts will be used to replace the ...